A history of Indigenous resistance
Nick Estes' history of Indigenous resistance in the US and the struggle for liberation against North America’s settler colonial violence.
In 2016, a small protest encampment at the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, initially established to block construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, grew to be the largest Indigenous protest movement in the twenty-first century. Water Protectors knew this battle for native sovereignty had already been fought many times before, and that, even after the encampment was gone, their anticolonial struggle would continue. In Our History Is the Future, Nick Estes traces traditions of Indigenous resistance that led to the #NoDAPL movement. Our History Is the Future is at once a work of history, a manifesto, and an intergenerational story of resistance.
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“In this powerful blend of personal and historical narrative, Nick Estes skillfully weaves together transformative stories of resistance from these front lines, never losing sight of their enormous stakes. A major contribution.” – Naomi Klein, author of This Changes Everything
“Reading Our History Is the Future is like standing in the middle of camp again. During the Standing Rock uprising, we witnessed what our ancestors always prayed for—making their dreams a reality.” – Bobbi Jean Three Legs, leader of the Standing Rock Youth Runners
“This book is a jewel—history and analysis that reads like the best poetry—certain to be a classic work as well as a study guide for continued and accelerated resistance.” – Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, author of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States
"This book will be an instant classic and go-to text for students and educators working to understand the ‘structure’ undergirding the ‘event’ of the Dakota Access Pipeline. This is what history as Ghost Dance looks like.” – Sandy Grande, author of Red Pedagogy: Native American Social and Political Thought
